The head of NPO Lavochkin was suspected of embezzling hundreds of millions of rubles

The General Director of NPO Lavochkin Sergei Lemeshevsky became the figurant of criminal case about swindle. On Wednesday, July 25, reports “Interfax”.

As explained in the press service of the Roscosmos, Lemeshevsky, along with the head of the Directorate of legal support of enterprises Catherine Averianova suspected of embezzling large sums of money by paying fictitious rendered legal services to a law firm in the amount of 330 million rubles.

According to the source, the suspect in the fraud is not arrested, neither he nor Averyanova not a preventive measure. Investigators conducted searches at their place of residence and in the enterprise.

After the institution of criminal proceedings Lemeshevsky resigned. The acting head of the company appointed Deputy General Director for security Harun Karchev.

In April 2015, the police detained a top-managers of defense enterprises NPO Lavochkin on suspicion of organizing a criminal community and the theft of 180 million rubles. According to investigators, the actions were coordinated by the first Deputy General Director for Finance and Deputy staff, six persons were their accomplices.

In may 2014, was detained the Deputy General Director for personnel NPO Lavochkin Sergey Solodovnikov. Lieutenant General of the FSB was suspected of participation in frauds with real estate and land NGOs.

NPO Lavochkin is one of the leading Russian companies-developers of space vehicles for use in earth orbit and in deep space.